Workshop 1:

26-30 July, 2010 -- Scilab, LaTeX & Other FOSS Workshop

Topics and Speakers

• LaTeX:

  • Sasikumar,  Manjusha Joshi - LaTeX - intro, basic commands, environments, table of contents, thm, equations, matrix handling, section no, footnote, Preparation of Question Paper and beamer presentation.

• Scilab:

  • M. Bhopatkar - Introduction

  •  P. Pingle - Linear Algebra

  • S. A. Katre - Numerical Methods

  •  Manjusha Joshi - Graphics

• Linux:

  • Sudhanwa Jogalekar and Gaurav Pant

    • Introduction and Installation of Linux

    • Basic file system commands, cd mkdir rmdir rm, equivalent s/w etc, directory structure. 

    • File permission user groups etc, I/O redirection & piping

    • Different GUI's and applications

    • Installation of software on Linux/ Other OS Q&A

• GeoGebra:

  • Shailesh Shirali  - Modeling in Calculus, using Geogebra

• Maxima:

  • R.Pawale - Symbolic Computation

• R:

  • Ajit Kumar - Introduction to R- tool for data visualization

• SAGE:

  • Surendran - SAGE- Math server

    • Brief fossian overview of SAGE

    • Demo : SAGE on Internet: Notebook

    • Demo : SAGE on Local Server

    • Examples : Differential Equation

    • Examples : Elliptic curve

    • Example  : Sage Plots, complex functions

    • Interfacing Free Maths Software in Sage

    • Sage in Education - Sage_wiki

    • Participating in Sage Development

Participants :46

List of Speakers

1. Sasikumar, Trivandrum

2. Manjusha Joshi, Pune

3. Bhopatkar, Pune

4. P. Pingle, Pune

5. S. A. Katre, Pune

6. Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Pune

7. Gaurav Pant , Pune

8. Shailesh Shirali, Hrishi vally, A.P.

9. R.Pawale, Mumbai

10. Ajit Kumar, Mumbai

11. Surendran, Pune

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